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Totem and Taboo
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Covers much of the same material that was covered by Durkheim, but in a different
theoretical perspective
Comes up with different approaches
Freud is not known as a sociologist, he seems to be somewhat on the outs in both the
psychiatric

Chapter two: The Principle Totemic Beliefs CTN, The Totemic Animal
and Man
Totem is a brother, member of the kin group, we do not eat that animal,
but there are certain occasions where they must eat it
Matrilineal and totem was important, contact betwee

Totemism
Chapter two: The Principle Totemic Beliefs CTN, The Totemic Animal
and Man
Totem is a brother, member of the kin group, we do not eat that animal, but there are certain
occasions where they must eat it
Matrilineal and totem was important, conta

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life- September 13th 2016
Durkheim
University of Bordeux: 3 important works:
1. The division of labour in society (social solidarity)
2. The rules of the sociological method (methods and approach to understanding of soci

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Durkheims last book
Written 101 years ago
Introduction
In the period of time that Durkheim was writing, the thinking was dominated by
Evolutionists (Charles Darwin)
o Arguing that all life on Earth evolves
o Lower f

Overview of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
- Published by Freud in 1929
- Dual-instinct theory
o Not Eros and instinct, but Eros and death
o Not everything is driven by pleasure
- Eros is binding of people together, life producing life, the

November 11, 2013
Overview of Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego
- Published by Freud in 1929
- Dual-instinct theory
o Not Eros and instinct, but Eros and death
o Not everything is driven by pleasure
- Eros is binding of people together, life pr

Totem And Taboo Notes
The Horror of Incest
Each clan is named after its totem
o Totem: it is as a rule an animal and more rarely a plant or natural phenomenon,
which stands in a peculiar relation to the clan
Common ancestor of the clan
It is their guar

Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013
Unlike Durkheim, Freud believed in order to have religion, we must have a God
or Gods
The first world view, which was not religious per say is an animistic system
but not Gods (pg. 97)
He goes on to distinguish between magic and re